Title :
EL-MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network
Author :
Sun, Jifeng ; Gu, Zhichao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou
Abstract :
EL-MAC, a contention-based MAC protocol, is proposed in this paper. EL-MAC is efficient and low-latency for the WSN. By cross-layer operating, nodes build the data forwarding chain (DFC) by contending means and staggered wake up in proper time so that packets could be duly forwarded as more hops as possible in a cycle and the latency decline greatly. The simulation results show that EL-MAC has lower latency and higher throughput with less energy consumption on the same environment condition than S-MAC.
Keywords :
access protocols; energy consumption; wireless sensor networks; EL-MAC protocol; cross-layer operating; data forwarding chain; less energy consumption; wireless sensor network; Delay; Digital-to-frequency converters; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Power engineering and energy; Sleep; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.947
